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You know after reading all the articles, I believe all the pro life people who are not jumping at the chance to save this other life are hippocites. Personally I am pro choice. For a very specific reason. Until the embryo can feel, and think for itself it is just an embryo, and not a life. Here was a life, it had a brain, and reacted to stimuli (i.e. blinked and smiled presumably at something which had stimulated it) which is enough to presume it was not brain dead. Abortion of an embryo, is not killing life, yet. It is a potential life. They keep saying the head could not live on its own, well neither can an embryo, or a baby. They all need help.
I can see removing this head to allow the other life to continue, however they have not stated that this was the case. They allowed it to continue for a couple of years to study the best way to remove it. I have seen conjoined twins, conjoined at the head, survive and live a fully functional life. They both learned to cope. When asked if a surgery could be done succesfully to seperate them, they both said no. They waited this long to see how to take them apart. They could have waited a little longer to see if they could live together. If not, seperate the two. I think they made this decision much to soon. But I am also not one of the parents. So my thoughts on the matter do not mount to much but a bunch of letters written into a cathode ray tube and posted in electronic ether.
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